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Images of the Day

Selected by deputy picture editor Brenda Fitzsimons

Tue 29 Aug 2017

PRESIDENTIAL BRIEFING: US first lady Melania Trump listens during a firehouse briefing on Hurricane Harvey in Corpus Christi, Texas, August 29th, 2017. President Donald Trump has flown into storm-ravaged Texas to show solidarity. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

TEXAS TRIP: President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump board Air Force One for their trip to Texas, at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. Photograph: Doug Mills/New York Times

HURRICANE AFTERMATH: Volunteer rescuers evacuate people from a flooded residential area in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Texas. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

CAN’T OUTRUN THEM: A jogger and his dogs cast shadows as they run on the street in Vienna, Austria. Photograph: Heinz-Peter Bader/Reuters

NEW TO THE CAMP: Taoiseach Leo Varadkar welcomes the appointment of Cmdt Caroline Burke to the position of Aide de Camp to the Taoiseach. Photograph: Maxwellphotography.ie

CAMINO STORM: Lighting strikes close to a sculpture of pilgrims, Alto Del Perdon, during a storm over the Camino de Santiago route, near Pamplona, Navarra, Spain. Photograph: Jesus Diges/EPA

MERKEL’S REBUKE: German chancellor Angela Merkel leaves a news conference in Berlin, Germany, where she said she saw no possibility for a deepening of EU co-operation with Turkey at present as the rule of law no longer existed in that country. Photograph: Fabrizio Bensch/Turkey

MUSLIM HOLIDAY: Afghan men shop for livestock at a market ahead of the Eid al-Adha Muslim holiday, on the outskirts of Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Photograph: Noorullah Shirzada/AFP/Getty Images

SOUNDOME SHENANIGANS: Carla Mooney enjoys goings-on in the Red Bull Soundome as preparations for the Electric Picnic festival reach full tilt. The festival runs from September 1st to 3rd. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

DARK HEDGES: Local table tennis players engage on a stretch of road known as the Dark Hedges as the Queen's Baton Relay makes a short stop in Antrim, Northern Ireland. The Dark Hedges, near Stranocum, featured in season two of Game of Thrones and has become a tourist mecca. The Queen's Baton Relay is on a UK tour ahead of the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia. Photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images